deja-dup needs expressions for ignored-folders

[BeowulfOF]

At least I would really appreciate (and I bet all developers out there as well), if deja-dup would allow to have glob-expressions or regular expressions for ignored-folders.

On a normal installation it is really a pain in the a** to sort out all those
.cache
.obj
tmp/*
build/*

especially, since those will be generated dynamically during the day. There's absolutely no need to back those up, but the frontend now only allows for specific pathes to be entered on ignore list.

Please add this feature.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: deja-dup 34.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-35.40-generic 4.2.8-ckt5
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 19 14:08:35 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-31 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
JournalErrors:
 No journal files were found.
 -- No entries --
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Naël (nathanael-naeri)]

This is a much-required feature, so I'm adding duplicate status as needed.

Ideas and designs have been shared but nobody has started implementing them: the code base is rather large and takes time getting acquainted to, the main developer is busy working on other projects, and it's not clear if he would accept such a feature as it can be considered too advanced for Déjà-Dup's intended users.

I would like to work on that feature at some point in the future, but that's not going to be soon.